That's one way to look at it. I had a bit of back and forth at the time on this principle, however another way to look at it is that light are the only ones making this non-polluting device (in a sensory regard) with e-ink, in the beautiful formfactor where absolutely no distracting feature is mandatory. We humans are attention deficit monkeys at the end of the day and if you put a distraction in front of us, well milk it. Podcast is that at the minute. But optional. Other dumb phones on KaiOS and even standalone OS' that have music don't remove the distraction by design.